‘Catch-22’ Gets Premiere Date & First-Look Trailer On Hulu – TCA

By Denise Petski on Feb 11, 2019 9:00 am

Photo by: Philipe Antonello / Hulu

Hulu has set Friday, May 17 for the premiere of all six episodes of Catch-22, its high-profile limited series from George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. We’re also getting a first-look at footage in a trailer released today during Hulu’s presentation at TCA.

Written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based on the seminal Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a US Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specifies that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers which are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind; a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but a request to be removed from duty is evidence of sanity and therefore makes him ineligible to be relieved from duty.

Catch-22 is executive produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov on behalf of Smokehouse Pictures, along with Richard Brown and Steve Golin on behalf of Anonymous Content. Luke Davies and David Michôd are co-writers and executive producers for the series.

Clooney, Heslove and Ellen Kuras, who also serves as a producer, each directed two episodes of the series.

Watch the trailer above.

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